Ahh so the moral, legal debates on pirating has begun. Always seem to crop up in these discussions. It's unfortunate.
On one side you have the anti pirating that claim the following. Developers and publishers (music, software...) lose out on money. It is illegal and probably more. Given oppertunity everyone will pirate.
On the other side you also have a variety. Fight the man, poor people can play when other wise they can't.
I only have three points to comment on. One, the PC is the biggest, most open and highly easiest cracked/hacked VG machine out there. Oddly developers still find it profitable. Two, there is a portion of people who pirated wouldn't have bought the game anyway. This percentage is an unknown factor. Finally we can extrapolate pirating sales patterns through actuall evidence while we would need actuall studies to prove how many of those who pirated would have bought the game if they couldn't pirate. publishers(any industry) will NEVER pay for this study, they have had over 10 years to do so.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
